![]() But in the city, in the mid-90s, in my mid-20s? Androgynous preppy didn’t cut it anymore.Īs a writerly type in a time before that was a financial death sentence, I temped while interning at various magazines, eventually landing an editorial assistant job. My sociology professor called my college boyfriend and me “The Bobbsey Twins” because we dressed identically. Having attended boarding school and college during one of the few times in history when women were actually encouraged to dress comfortably, I spent the late 80s and early 90s kicking around in button fly jeans, nubby wool crewnecks, Patagonia fleece pullovers, and bucks. My early years after college were the first time that clothes became a way to express myself-not just who I was, but who I hoped to be. But the show’s use of fashion, still a pop culture obsession 22 years later, to communicate striving to make it in a big city? That I did have in common with Monica and Rachel. Unlike the show’s spacious, shabby-chic apartment, ours was so cramped that my twin bed touched my bedroom walls on three sides and a divot had been made in the bathroom wall to squeeze in the toilet tank. ![]() ![]() I moved to New York City two weeks before the first episode of Friends aired, in September 1994, and the exterior of the show’s apartment building was filmed just a few blocks from the crumbling West Village walk-up where my roommates and I watched the pilot episode. ![]() My nylon Kate Spade bag was more than an accessory-it was a symbol of growing and becoming myself in the big city. ![]()
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